“College Material” Structural Care at a New York City Transfer School

Authors

C. Ray Borck, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-9-2018

Abstract

Based on ethnographic research at Brooklyn Community High School (BCHS), a transfer high school in New York City I demonstrate that students narrate their educational histories in terms of their experience of care, or lack of care, from teachers. Contributing to research on student-teacher relationships, care, resilience and retention, I develop the concept structural care, arguing that teachers’ ability to demonstrate care for their students, and students’ ability to perceive that care, is enabled or constrained by larger, socio-structural forces such as the national educational policy landscape, widespread cultural beliefs about schools and students, and processes of racialization, criminalization, and marginalization.

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This article was originally published in societies, available at doi:10.3390/soc8040113

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